Offshore Wind Wire

By Todd Griset
Wind turbine manufacturer and project developer Gamesa has suspended its plans for an offshore wind project off Virginia.  Gamesa had sought permits to install a prototype 5 MW turbine and supporting infrastructure about 3 miles offshore in Chesapeake Bay, but ultimately chose a site off the Canary Islands off Africa instead.
What led Gamesa [...]

The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities has scheduled public hearings on a contract for Cape Wind to sell more than 27 percent of its power to regional utility NSTAR.
The deal was reached as part of an agreement that allowed NSTAR to merge with Northeast Utilities. Two years ago, Massachusetts regulators approved Cape Wind’s contract to sell 50 percent of its power [...]

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced today that there is no competitive interest for the Atlantic Wind Connection’s proposed offshore wind backbone and the project can move ahead to the environmental review process.
The project is designed to connect offshore wind projects along the Atlantic seaboard, removing the need for each project to built a [...]

By Todd Griset
The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is considering a proposal to develop an offshore wind project on the outer continental shelf off New York’s Long Island.  Proposed by a collaborative composed of three New York City-area utilities, the Long Island – New York City Offshore Wind Project would be located in federal [...]

Turbine manufacturing giant Vestas has announces that it has discovered malfunctioning bearings in 376 gearboxes that were slated to be used in the V90-3.0 MW wind turbines, according to a report in North American Windpower.
The malfunctioning gearboxes are expected to cost Vestas over 40 million euros, which it will attempt to recoup from the gearbox [...]

Norwegian energy giant Statoil currently lacks the necessary state support to begin construction on a proposed deepwater test project off the coast of Maine, according to a report in Norwegian newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad.
Last November, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced that it had received an unsolicited application for a deepwater test project from [...]